Add two more cases
per OR per month

Ambient AI refers to sensors and software — typically ceiling-mounted cameras with microphones, paired with machine learning — that passively observe an environment, like a hospital operating room, and turn what they see into structured data, without requiring staff to manually log anything. Apella uses ambient AI and computer vision to automatically detect key perioperative events, such as patient entry, anesthesia induction, and procedure start and end, and can write that data directly into the EHR in real time.

Apella is an operating room intelligence platform built on ambient AI. It combines computer vision, artificial intelligence, and EHR data to automatically detect key perioperative events without staff logging anything. That data gives hospitals real-time visibility into every OR, more accurate schedules, and analytics to improve performance over time. Hospitals use Apella to predict case durations, forecast delays, and surface the bottlenecks that limit surgical capacity.

Apella supports the full care team — from perioperative nurses to surgeons and anesthesiologists to OR managers to executives to schedulers — with real-time insights that keep surgical days running smoothly. Apella improves coordination by providing ground-truth operational event and phase data, trustworthy case duration forecasts, and a live view of multiple ORs in a single view.

No. Apella is designed to remove manual, repetitive documentation and status-checking tasks so surgical teams can focus on patient care. Ambient AI does not replace clinical judgment or staff. Charge nurses, surgeons, and perioperative leaders still make the decisions — Apella gives them real-time, trustworthy data to make those decisions faster and with greater confidence and coordination.

Hospitals have reported up to a 15x return on investment from deploying Apella, driven primarily by additional case capacity captured from existing OR time rather than new rooms, added staff, or later days. Actual ROI varies by case mix, OR utilization baseline, and how completely a health system adopts the real-time data into scheduling and staffing decisions.